Dorothy C. Holland

DOROTHY C. HOLLAND

July 2011

Address: Department of Anthropology

CB # 3115

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3115

(962-1243 (secretary)/962-3040 (office)

962-1613 (fax); e-mail:

Education:

Ph.D. 1974 University of California at Irvine (Anthropology); Dissertation: Samoan Concepts of Mental Illness and Treatment.

M.A. 1969 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Anthropology); Thesis: Shango: A Modernizing Cult in Trinidadian Society.

B.A. 1966 East Carolina University (Mathematics); magna cum laude

Employment and Professional/Administrative Experience:

2009 Visiting Instructor, PhD course: Learning in Organisations: A Meeting Between Emotions, Motivations and Production of Identities. Doctoral School of Organisational Learning, The Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus, Copenhagen, Denmark May 25-28,. 2009.

2009- Director, Center for Integrating Research and Action, UNC-CH

2008- Member, International Editorial Board, Actio

2007-2010 Selection Committee, Distinguished Professorships, UNC-CH

2007-2009 Faculty Engaged Scholars Program. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (hereafter UNC-CH).

2007- Co-Director, Center for Integrating Research and Action, UNC-CH

2006-2007 Selection Committee, Distinguished Term Professorships, UNC-CH

2006- 2009 Editorial Advisory Board for Sage Handbook of Identities.

2005-2007 American Anthropological Association Commission on Governance.

2004-2005 Task Force on Diversity, UNC-CH.

2004-2005 Program Chair, Biennial Conference, Society for Psychological Anthropology.

2003 Acting Chair (Fall), Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

2002- Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

2002 Member, Advisory Board to First Year Seminars, UNC-CH.

2001-2009 Editorial Board, Ethos.

2001-2005 President-Elect (2001-2003), President (2003-2005), Society for Psychological Anthropology.

2001-2004 Member, Advisory Board, Institute for African American Research, UNC-CH.

1999-2009 Corresponding Editor, Ethnography.

1999-2002 Member, Community and Diversity Committee, UNC-CH.

1999-2001 Chair (2000-2001), Vice Chair (1999-2000), Conference of Chairs, UNC-CH.

1999-2000 Member, Chairs Advisory Council, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-CH.

1998 Invited Participant, NSF/Sloan Foundation Sponsored Working Group on Anthropological Approaches to Middle Class Working Families. Alexandria, VA., May 31-June 2, 1998.

1996-2001 Chair, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1996-2001 Member, Advisory Board, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC-CH.

1996-1999 Member, Advisory Board, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH.

1996-pres Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-CH.

1995-2010 Member, Cultural Studies Advisory Board, UNC-CH.

1995 Invited Participant, NSF sponsored Workshop on Human Capital Initiative, Arlington, VA., June, 1995.

1995 Visiting Professor, Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. May, 1995.

1995-1996 Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1994-1997 J. Ross Macdonald Professor of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1994 Member, Dean's Committee on Cultural Studies, UNC-CH.

1993-1994 Fulbright Evaluation Committee, UNC-CH.

1992-1994 Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Cultural Anthropology.

1992-1994 Editor, AnArchaey Notes, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1992-pres Affiliated Faculty, Interdisciplinary Major in Cultural Studies, UNC-CH.

1992 Invited Participant, NSF sponsored Workshop on Cognitive Activity in Social and Physical Contexts, Washington, D.C., September.

1991-1997 Member, Mentor Faculty of The Carolina Consortium on Human Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

1990-1993 Faculty Associate, Building and Using a Collaboratory: A Foundation for Supporting and Studying Group Collaborations. National Science Foundation Grant to Department of Computer Science, UNC-CH.

1990-1993 Member, Advisory Committee to the Women's Studies Program, UNC-CH.

1990-1999 Member, Advisory Committee to UNITAS, UNC-CH.

1989-1991 Member, Cognitive Science Advisory Board, UNC-CH.

1989-1990 Program Chair (Associate Chair '89), General Anthropology Division, American Anthropology Association.

1989-1990 Member, Ford Advisory Committee on Integrating Women of Color into the Liberal Arts Curriculum, Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women.

1989-1992 Editorial Board, Ethos.

1987-pres Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1986-1988 Associate Editor, Human Organization.

1984-pres Reviewer. Cambridge University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Human Development, Human Organization, American Ethnologist, Ethos, Sociology of Education, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, American Anthropologist.

1981-1983 Board of Directors, Society for Psychological Anthropology.

1979-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1979-1987 Member, Kenan Advisory Committee, Institute for Higher Education Opportunity, Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, Georgia.

1978-1980 Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1978-1980 Field Reviewer, National Institute of Education.

1977-pres Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation.

1975-pres Member, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, UNC-CH.

1974-1979 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNC-CH.

1972-1974 Research Associate, Policy Research and Planning Group, Inc., Berkeley, California.

1970-1973 Consultant, Program Associate, Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development; San Francisco, California.

Research Interests:

Identity and Agency, Social Movements and Activism, Democracy, Schooling, Environmentalism, Gender; US, Nepal

Projects/Publications in Progress or in Press

Journal Articles and Chapters ( in preparation):

Holland, D., W. Lachicotte, Jr., and W. Kempton. n.d. Environmental identity as a mediator of environmental action: The importance of investing one’s self. (In preparation.)

Publications

Books and Edited Journal Issues:

Holland, D., D. Nonini, C. Lutz, L. Bartlett, M. Frederick, T. Guldbrandsen, and E. Murillo. 2007 Local democracy under siege: Activism, public interests and private politics. New York: New York University Press. (2007-2008 recipient of the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America)

Holland, D., and K. Leander, eds. 2004. Positioning and subjectivity: Narcotaffikers, Taiwanese brides, angry loggers, school troublemakers. Special issue. Ethos 32(2).

Holland, D., and J. Lave, eds. 2001. History in person: Enduring struggles, contentious practice, intimate identities. Albuquerque, N.M.: School of American Research Press.

Holland, D., W. Lachicotte, D. Skinner and C. Cain. 1998. Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Skinner, D., A. Pach III, and D. Holland, eds. 1998. Selves in time and place: Identities, experience, and history in Nepal. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Levinson, B., D. Foley, and D. Holland, eds. 1996. The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Holland, D. and M. Eisenhart. 1990. Educated in romance: Women, achievement, and college culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Holland, D., and N. Quinn, eds. 1987. Cultural models in language and thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Holland, D., ed. 1978. Ethnographic perspectives on desegregated schools. Special issue. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 9(4).

Articles:

Holland, Dorothy, Dana Powell, Geni Eng, and Georgina Drew. 2010. Models of engaged scholarship: An interdisciplinary group's examination of choices, actions, methods, and strategies for engaged scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Collaborative Anthropologies 3(2010), 1-36.

Holland, Dorothy and Jean Lave. 2009. Social practice theory and the historical production of persons. Actio: An International Journal of Human Activity Theory No. 2:1-15.

Holland, D., and D. Skinner. 2008. Literacies of distinction: (Dis)empowerment in social movements. Journal of Development Studies, Volume 44, No. 6 (July): 849-862. Reprinted in 2009 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development K. Basu, B. Maddox and A. Robinson-Pant, eds. New York: Routledge.

Holland, D., G. Fox, and V. Daro. 2008. Social movements and collective identity: A decentered, dialogic view. Anthropological Quarterly, 81 (1): 83-113.

Holland, D., and K. Leander. 2004. Introduction. In Ethnographic studies of positioning and subjectivity: Narcotaffikers, Taiwanese brides, angry loggers, school troublemakers, ed. D. Holland and K. Leander. Special issue. Ethos 32(2):127-139.

Holland, D. 2003. Multiple identities in practice: On the dilemmas of being a hunter and an environmentalist in the USA. In Multiple identifications and the self, ed. T. van Meijl and H. Driesson. Special issue. Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 42:23-41.

Bartlett, L., and D. Holland. 2002. Theorizing the space of literacy practice. Ways of Knowing 2(1):10-22. (To be reprinted in On Ethnography: Approaches to Language and Literacy, TC Press, 2008.)

Kempton, W., D. Holland, K. Bunting-Howarth, E. Hannan, and C. Payne. 2001. Local environmental groups: A systematic enumeration in two geographical areas. Rural Sociology 66(4):557-578.

Skinner, D., J. Valsiner, and D. Holland. 2001. Discerning the dialogical self: A theoretical and methodological examination of a Nepali adolescent’s narrative. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 2(3). Available at http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-01/3-01skinneretal-e.htm

Guldbrandsen, T., and D. Holland. 2001. Encounters with the supercitizen: Neoliberalism, environmental activism, and the American Heritage Rivers Initiative. Special issue, ed. K. Harper. The Anthropological Quarterly 74(3):124-134.

Kitchell, A, W. Kempton, D. Holland, and D. Tesch. 2000. Identities and actions within environmental groups. Human Ecology Review 7(2):1-20.

Holland, D., and D. Skinner. 1995. Contested ritual, contested femininities: (Re)Forming self and society in a Nepali women's festival. American Ethnologist 22(2):279-305.

Holland, D., and Debra Skinner. 1995. Not written by the Fate Writer: A case study of cultural production in Nepal. Folk 37:103-133.

Holland, D., and M. Cole. 1995. Between discourse and schema: Reformulating a cultural-historical approach to culture and mind. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26(4):475-489.

Skinner, D., D. Holland, and G.B. Adhikari. 1994. The songs of Tij: A genre of critical commentary for women in Nepal. Asian Folklore Studies 53:259-305.

Holland, D., and A. Kipnis. 1994. Metaphors for embarrassment and stories of exposure: The not-so-egocentric self in American culture. Ethos 22(3):316-342.

Holland, D., and J.R. Reeves. 1994. Activity theory and the view from somewhere: Team perspectives on the intellectual work of programming Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal, 1(1&2):8-24. [Slightly modified version appears in Contexts and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human Computer Interaction, ed. B. Nardi. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.]

Peacock, J. and D. Holland. 1993. The narrated self. Ethos 21(4):367-383.

Holland, D. 1988. In the voice of, in the image of: Cognitive presentations of attractiveness. IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 2(1/2):106-135.

------. 1988. Culture sharing across gender lines: An interactionist corrective to the status-centered model of culture sharing. American Behavioral Scientist 31(2):219-234.

Holland, D., and M. Eisenhart. 1988. Moments of discontent: University women and the gender status quo. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 19(2):115-138.

Holland, D., and J. Valsiner. 1988. Cognition, symbols and Vygotsky's developmental psychology. Ethos 16(3):247-272.

Holland, D., and J. Crane. 1987. Adapting to an industrializing nation: The Shango Cult in Trinidad. Social and Economic Studies 36(4):41-66.

Eisenhart, M., and D. Holland. 1983. Learning gender from peers: The role of peer groups in the cultural transmission of gender. Human Organization 42(4):321-332.

Holland, D. 1978. Ethnographic perspectives on desegregated schools. Special issue, ed. D. Holland. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 9(4):245-248.

Holland, D., and J. Harding. 1978. Social distinctions and emergent student groups in a desegregated school. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 9(4):272-283.

Book chapters

Holland, D. 2010. Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice: Identities and transformations. In Symbolic Transformations: The Mind in Movement through Culture and Society, Brady Wagoner (ed.), 269-283. London: Routledge

Holland, D., and W. Lachicotte. 2007. Vygotsky, Mead and the new sociocultural studies of identity. In The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky, ed. H. Daniels, M. Cole and J. Wertsch, 101-135. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Allen, K., V. Daro, and D. Holland. 2007. Becoming an environmental justice activist. In Environmental justice and environmentalism: The social justice challenge to the environmental movement, ed. R. Sandler and P. Pezzullo, 105-134. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.

Holland, D. 2004. Self and power in the world of romance: Extending sociogenic theories. In Changing conceptions of psychological life, ed. C. Lightfoot, C. Lalonde, and M. Chandler, 149-182. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kempton, W., and D. Holland. 2003. Identity and sustained environmental practice. In Identity and the natural environment: The psychological significance of nature, ed. S. Clayton and S. Opotow, 317-341. Cambridge, Ma.: The MIT Press.

Holland, D. and D. Skinner. 2001. From women's suffering to women's politics: Re-imagining women's problems after Nepal's 1990 pro-democracy movement. In History in person: Enduring struggles, contntious practice, intimate identities, ed. D. Holland and J. Lave, 93-133. Albuquerque, N.M.: School of American Research Press.

Holland, D., and J. Lave. 2001. Introduction. In History in person: Enduring struggles and the practice of identity, ed. D. Holland and J. Lave, 3-33. Albuquerque, N.M.: School of American Research Press.

Holland, D. and M. Eisenhart. 2000. Moments of discontent: University women and the gender status quo (abridged version). In Schooling the symbolic animal: Social and cultural dimensions of education, ed. B. Levinson (with K. Borman, M. Eisenhart, M. Foster, A. Fox, and M. Sutton), 280-295. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Skinner, D., A. Pach III, and D. Holland. 1998. Selves in time and place: An introduction. In Selves in time and place: Identities, experience, and history in Nepal, ed. D. Skinner, A. Pach III, and D. Holland, 3-16. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Skinner, D., and D. Holland. 1998. Contested selves, contested femininities: Selves and society in process. In Selves in time and place: Identities, experience, and history in Nepal, ed. D. Skinner, A. Pach III, and D. Holland, 87-110. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Holland, D. 1997. Selves as cultured: As told by an anthropologist who lacks a soul. In Self and identity: Fundamental issues, ed. R. Ashmore and L. Jussim, 193-221. London: Oxford University Press.

Levinson, B., and D. Holland. 1996. The cultural production of the educated person: An introduction. In The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice, ed. B. Levinson, D. Foley, and D. Holland, 1-54. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Skinner, D., and D. Holland. 1996. Schools as a heteroglossic site for the cultural production of persons in and beyond a hill community in Nepal. In The cultural production of the educated person: Critical ethnographies of schooling and local practice, ed. B. Levinson, D. Foley and D. Holland, 273-299. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York Press. [Reprinted in 2009 Education in Nepa: Problems, Reforms and Social Change Pramod Bhatta, ed. Kathmandu, Nepal: Martin Chautari.

Holland, D., and D. Skinner. 1996. The co-development of identity, agency and lived worlds. In Comparisons in human development: Understanding time and Context, ed. J. Tudge, M. Shanahan, and J. Valsiner, 193-221. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Holland, D., and A. Kipnis. 1995. American cultural models of embarrassment: The not-so-egocentric self laid bare. In Everyday conceptions of emotion: An introduction to the psychology, anthropology and linguistics of emotion, ed. J. Russell, J. Fernández-Dols, A. S. R. Manstead, and J.C. Wellenkamp, 181-202. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Somewhat modified version of 1994 article in Ethos.]